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Yahoo Shuts Down Their PayPal Competitor
LostCluster writes "MSNBC and ZDnet are both reporting that Yahoo and HSBC have announced a shutdown plan for their PayDirect service which was their rival to PayPal. Since CitiBank abandoned their c2it service last year, PayPal now seems to be a monopoly by default." There are other players in this field, though, like bidpay and worldpay.
Rather than suggest the word should be removed, it simply seems better to moderate and ignore. Free speech still rules in importance, except when deemed a direct public menace - screaming "fire" in a movie theatre, etc.
"...it is also reasonable to think that the origin of the "N-word" came from a bully's(cracker) pun on the phonetic and inferior similarities with "renege" and 'niggardly'." [Emphasis mine]
This is ridiculous. You mean to tell me that while you're against the use of any word that even sounds like a black racial slur under the idiotic assumption that the words are tangentially related, you see nothing wrong with using an actual WHITE racial slur at the same time you express your righteous indignation?
What ever happened to your hypersensitivity and supposed consideration for the psychology of the reader? Are only black people deserving of tolerance?
Let's be honest, this really isn't about tolerance anyway, is it?
-Grym